DIPLOMACY: Coping with the Global Minefield

They pulled up to the United Nations' glassy Manhattan headquarters by
the limousine loadPresident Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France,
Premier Thorbjörn Falldin of Sweden, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of
Canada. All together, 20 heads of state or government were scheduled to
drop in on the five-week-long proceedings. The occasion that brought
them: an unprecedented session of the 149-member General Assembly
devoted solely to disarmament, the largest group ever convened in an
attempt to reverse the world's steady accumulation of ever more and...